A list of conference proceedings that may be of interest to readers of Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. Every volume is completely free to read online.

EMAG–NANO 2005: IMAGING, ANALYSIS AND FABRICATION ON THE NANOSCALE
31 August–2 September 2005, University of Leeds, UK

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, SYMPOSIUM Y: OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES
3–8 July 2005, Singapore

THIRD CONFERENCE OF THE ASIAN CONSORTIUM FOR COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE (ACCMS-3)
8–11 September 2005, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE OF FRICTION
9–13 September 2007, Irago, Aichi, Japan

FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGIES
2–4 April 2007, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

INTERFACIAL NANOSTRUCTURES IN CERAMICS: A MULTISCALE APPROACH
28 May–1 June 2007, Strasbourg, France

13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LIQUID AND AMORPHOUS METALS
8–14 July 2007, Ekaterinburg, Russia

PHYSICS-BASED MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES: ANALYSIS AND COMPUTATION
18–23 November, 2007, Banff International Research Station, Alberta, Canada

AB INITIO SIMULATION OF CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS: HISTORY AND PROSPECTS
8–9 September 2008, Aula Magna del Rettorato, Torino, Italy

THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAPIDLY QUENCHED AND METASTABLE MATERIALS
24–29 August 2008, Dresden, Germany

SYMPOSIA D, E and F FROM MRS INTERNATIONAL MATERIALS RESEARCH
9–12 June 2008, Chongqing, China

FULLERENE NANO MATERIALS (SYMPOSIUM N OF IUMRS-ICA2008)
9–13 December 2008, Nagoya, Japan

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS DESIGN 2008
10–13 November 2008, Osaka, Japan

16TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BORON, BORIDES AND RELATED MATERIALS
7–12 September 2008, Matsue, Shimane, Japan

7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODERN PRACTICE IN STRESS AND VIBRATION ANALYSIS
8–10 September 2009, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK

ASEAN WORKSHOP ON ADVANCED MATERIALS SCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY (AMSN 2008)
15–21 September 2008, Nha Trang City, Vietnam

Forthcoming conference proceedings:

16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEFECTS IN INSULATING MATERIALS (ICDIM2008) (24–29 August 2008, Aracaju, SE, Brazil)
Expected online publication: First quarter 2010

MICROSCOPY OF SEMI-CONDUCTING MATERIALS (MSM XVI) (17–20 March 2009, Keble College, Oxford, UK)
Expected online publication: First quarter 2010

15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE STRENGTH OF MATERIALS (ICSMA 15) (16–21 August 2009, Dresden, Germany)
Expected online publication: First quarter 2010

NEW: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
In addition to the above proceedings published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, we are pleased to announce the launch of a new open-access conference proceedings journal devoted to materials science and engineering, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, which published its first proceedings early in 2009.

Proceedings published to date in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering include:

IUMRS-ICA 2008 SYMPOSIUM 'AA. RARE-EARTH RELATED MATERIAL PROCESSING AND FUNCTIONS'
9–13 December 2008, Nagoya, Japan

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF GLASS MATERIALS (ISSTGM-2009)
16–19 March 2009, Guntur, India

DISLOCATIONS 2008
13–17 October 2008, Hong Kong

PROCESSING, MICROSTRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF MATERIALS
8–9 April 2009, Auckland, New Zealand

5TH INTERNATIONAL EEIGM/AMASE/FORGEMAT CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED MATERIALS RESEARCH
4–5 November 2009, Nancy, France

Forthcoming conference proceedings for this journal include:

ACTINIDES 2009 (12–17 July 2009, San Francisco, California, USA)
Expected online publication: First quarter 2010

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIFUNCTIONAL CERAMIC MATERIALS BASED ON NANOTECHNOLOGY (February 2010, Japan)
Expected online publication: Second quarter 2010